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s. .H. & A. s. SMITH. CORN POPPBR.

Patented Jan. 19.1897

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SETH SMITH AND ABEL S. SMITH, OF HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO THE HILLSDALE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CORN-POPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,621, dated January 19, 1897.

Application filed October 81, 1896. Serial No. 610,746- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: is a rod '7, forming a handle and terminating Be it known that we, SETH l-I. SMITH and at one end in a ring or handhold 8, the op- ABEL S. SMITH, citizens of the United States, posite extremity of said rod being attached, 55

residing at Hillsdale, in the county of Hillsas by means of inner and outer nuts 9 and dale and State of Michigan, have invented a 10, with the outer or remote end of the intenew and useful Corn-Popper, of which the rior section 1, said rod extending through a following is a specification. central opening in the cap 3 and also through Our invention relates to a corn-popper, and a registering opening in a centrally-bulged or be has for its object to provide a simple device spring disk 11, which is arranged exteriorly 1o constructed for rotation and adapted to be upon the cap 3.

used in the fire-box of a heating device of any It will be understood that by tightening the kind into which the body of the popper may nuts 9 and 10 the disk 11 is strained and by be inserted, no more space than that which its resilience causes a spreading pressure 65 is taken up by the body of the popper being against the nuts 9 and 10, looking the nuts 15 necessary for the reason that reciprocation or against displacement.

lateral vibration thereof is unnecessary. Fitted upon the rod 7 and rcvolubly con- Further objects and advantages of this innected with the receptacle is a sleeve or slide Vention will appear in the following descrip- 12 of tubular construction, provided with a 70 tion, and the novel features thereof will be flared extremity 13, which operates in a particularly pointed out in the appended socket-plate 14, secured to the cap-4 of the claims. exterior section 2, said cap being secured by In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective rivets or equivalent fastening devices 15 to view of a corn-popping device constructed in said cap, with its intermediate portion spaced 7 5 accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a from the plane of the cap to receive the flanged 2 5 longitudinal centralsection of the same, showor flared portion13 of the sleeve. This sleeve ing the body or receptacle in its extended or forms a handhold by which the receptacle open position in full lines and in its folded may be steadied during the rotation thereof position in dotted lines. v by means of the rod 7, inasmuch as the con- 80 Similar numerals of reference indicate cornection of the sleeve with the receptacle is responding parts in both figures of the drawrevoluble, and hence after the receptacle has ings. been charged and inserted into the fire-box The receptacle of the apparatus embodying of a suitable heating device,.which, as above our invention is of cylindrical construction indicated, may be-of any desired construction 85 and comprises telescoping inner and outer and forms no part of our invention, the sleeve sections 1 and 2, having closed outer or remay be held stationary, while the rod 7 is romote ends fitted with caps 3 and 4 and open tated therein, thus imparting rotary motion inner ends by which communication is estabto the receptacle to bring all parts of its surlished between the interiors of the sections. face into proximity to the incandescent coals. 90 The inner section is provided in one side with Furthermore, this sleeve or slide forms a suitan opening 5, through which corn or other able means for spreading or separating the material to be heated is introduced, while the sections of the receptacle when it is desired exterior inclosing section is provided with to remove the contents thereof, said sleeve imperforate sides, whereby when the sections not becoming heated to the same extent as 5 are collapsed or folded, as indicated in dotthe receptacle.

ted lines in Fig. 2,the opening 5 is closed by Various changes in the form, proportion, the wall of the exterior section. The exteand the minor details of construction may be rior section also carries a stop pin or stud 6, resorted to without departing from the spirit which projects inwardly and operates in the or sacrificing any of the advantages of this roe opening 5, thereby serving to limit the eXteninvention.

sion of the sections by contact with one end Having described our invention, what we of said opening. claim is- Extending axially through the receptacle 1. A corn-popper having a receptacle provided with means for giving access to its interior, an operating rod attached to and adapted to be turned to impart rotary movement to the receptacle, and a sleeve mounted upon the operating-rod and revolubly connected to the receptacle to form a handheld during the rotation of the receptacle, substantially as specified.

2. A corn-popper having a receptacle comprising telescoping sections of which the interior section is provided with an opening adapted to be exposed when the sections are extended,and an operating-rod extendingaxially through the receptacle and fixed to one of the sections, whereby the other is adapted to be moved independently of the rod to expose said opening, substantially as specified.

3. A corn-popper having a receptacle comprising telescoping interior and exterior sections, the former being provided with an opening adapted to be closed by the latter, an operating-rod extending axially through the receptacle and terminally attached to the outer end of one of the sections, and a sleeve mounted to slide upon the rod and revolubly connected with the other section, whereby the sections may be extended and closed by simultaneous opposite movement of the operating-rod and sleeve, substantially as specified.

4. A corn-popper having a receptacle coinprising interior and exterior telescoping sec tions, of which the former is provided With an opening and the latter with a stop pin or stud arranged to engage one side of said opening to limit the extension of the sections, an operating'rod extending axially through the receptacle and secured terminally to the closed outer end of the interior section, a socket-plate secured to the inner end of the exterior section concentric with the operating-rod, and a tubular sleeve fitted upon the operating-rod and having a flared or flanged extremity engaging said socketplate and thereby revolubly connected with the receptacle, substantially as specified.

5. A corn-popper having a receptacle comprising telescoping exterior and interior sections, an operating-rod terminally attached to the remote end of one of the sections, and a sleeve fitted to slide upon said operatingrod and attached to the contiguous end of the other section, substantially as specified.

In testimony thatwe claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

, SE"H ll. SMITH. ABEL S. SMITH. Witnesses:

ROY R. BAILEY, WM. PRIDEAUX. 

